Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton; with engraved borders . 1? [ 35 ] account of the connection between Iobates and Bellerophon,the former having given his only daughter Alchemonesin marriage to the latter, and having also made him hisheir, as a reward for having subdued the Chimaera; at thesame time supposing, that Iobates was the high-priest ofBacchus ? PLATE LIII. In this design, a symbolic pillar, consecrated to theDioscuri, is placed in the centre. One of these deitiesis signified by the black fillet,
Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton; with engraved borders . 1? [ 35 ] account of the connection between Iobates and Bellerophon,the former having given his only daughter Alchemonesin marriage to the latter, and having also made him hisheir, as a reward for having subdued the Chimaera; at thesame time supposing, that Iobates was the high-priest ofBacchus ? PLATE LIII. In this design, a symbolic pillar, consecrated to theDioscuri, is placed in the centre. One of these deitiesis signified by the black fillet, which indicates his death,but the other is represented as being alive; a female ismaking an offering of fruits to these gods, and the cistus isplaced where we usually see the tabernacle of symbols. PLATE LIV. On the first view this composition appeared to be a repre-sentation of Cassandra foretelling the fate of Troy toHecuba, who is seated, and to two of her daughters, andher brother Helenus ; but it is the opinion of Winckelman,that the subject of it is the selling of Hercules to Lydians, says he, clothed themselves in a manner en
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